by Diane Ravitch,The San Francisco Chronicle, December 29, 2013
Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, think tanks, philanthropic foundations and the mass media agree that America's public schools are in crisis. Through two... > more

by Jay Parini,The Boston Globe, December 25, 2013
In the wake of a substantial body of historical and textual studies by scholars of religion, pointing to inconsistencies in the Gospel accounts and the paucity of undisputed facts about... > more

by William B. Helmreich,The Portland Oregonian, December 22, 2013
You have to be slightly crazy to get to know New York City by walking along all of its streets, William Helmreich acknowledges. But, he claims, no other method... > more

by Richard Kurin,The Minneapolis Star Tribune, December 22, 2013
In 2011, as she listened to an 1880s recording of Alexander Graham Bell reciting "Mary Had a Little Lamb," Carlene Stephens, a curator at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.,... > more

by Jennifer Michael Hecht,Psychology Today, December 16, 2013
Among the top ten causes of death in the United States, suicides take more than 30,000 lives each year. And the rates are rising. The increase is highest... > more

by Ben Bradlee, Jr.,The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 15, 2013
On Dec. 7, 1937, the Boston Red Sox announced the acquisition of Ted Williams from the San Diego Padres (in the Pacific Coast League). "This is the happiest day of... > more

by Jonathan Conlin,The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 14, 2013
In "Parallele de Paris et de Londres" (1780), Louis-Sebastien Mercier compared the food, bridges, prisons, and pets of the two great cities in Europe. According to Jonathan Conlin, Mercier imagined... > more

by Paul Auster,The Jerusalem Post, December 6, 2013
Paul Auster launched his career three decades ago with a memoir. In The Invention of Solitude (1982), he began his literary search for identity and personal meaning with an affecting... > more

by Nicholas Carnes,The Huffington Post, December 4, 2013
Michael Michaud, a member of the United States House of Representatives, grew up in Medway, Maine, graduated from high school in East Millinocket, and worked at a mill and as... > more

by Tom Cheshire,The Boston Globe, December 3, 2013
A very tall man, with an interminable neck, who wore round spectacles and a Basque beret, Auguste Piccard became the model for Professor Cuthbert Calculus, the head-in-the-clouds scientist in the... > more

(co-authored with David J. Skorton)Forbes.com, December 2, 2013
Back at work this morning on black coffee and cold cereal after stuffing ourselves with stuffing, we are still thinking about pie—the American pie and how it's sliced with regard... > more

by Alice E. Marwick,Tulsa World, December 1, 2013
As they "conjured up entirely new worlds — like websites — voila! out of nothing," declared Larry Harvey, the co-founder of "Burning Man," the weeklong festival for Silicon Valley "digerati,"... > more

by Al Sharpton,The Florida Courier, November 22, 2013
The Rev. Al Sharpton, civil rights activist and host of MSNBC’s "PoliticsNation," claims he is a changed man. He has lost 150 pounds, doesn’t wear a medallion or a sweat... > more

by Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis,The San Francisco Chronicle, November 17, 2013
In April 1963, two years after he resigned from the military, following revelations that the "Pro-Blue" education program he developed for his division featured articles, books and lecturers from the... > more

by Dori Katz,The Jerusalem Post, November 15, 2013
In 1942, three-year-old Dori Katz was sent by her mother to live with Franz and Regine Walschot, a Catholic couple, in the village of Beersel, Belgium. Her name was to... > more

by Doris Kearns Goodwin,The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 10, 2013
In 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt made good on his promise not to seek reelection and hand-picked William Howard Taft, his secretary of war, as his successor. The two men... > more

by Benjamin R. Barber,The Huffington Post, November 5, 2013
"The difference between my level of government and other levels of government," Michael Bloomberg has said, "is that action takes place at the city level." While the federal government remains... > more

by Simon Winchester,The Boston Globe, November 4, 2013
Every day on Christie Street, in what was once the town of Raritan, N.J., a loudspeaker broadcasts the words of Thomas Alva Edison, taken from early gramophone recordings, Simon Winchester... > more

by Malcolm Gladwell,The Minneapolis Star Tribune, October 29, 2013
In "David and Goliath," Malcolm Gladwell, the clever and counterintuitive author of "The Tipping Point," "Blink" and "Outliers," argues that the powerful are not as powerful as they seem and... > more

(co-authored with David J. Skorton)Forbes.com, October 28, 2013
Finding the right college is complicated enough for well-prepared students from middle- or upper-class families with a history of college education. If you’re a low-income student, the first in your... > more

by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen,The Portland Oregonian, October 28, 2013
In 2010, Abdallah Jarbu, Hamas' Deputy Minister of Religious Affairs, proclaimed that Jews "suffer from a mental disorder, because they are thieves and aggressors...in fact, they are foreign bacteria, a... > more

by Robert Hilburn,Tulsa World, October 27, 2013
In 1972, Johnny Cash looked back on a tumultuous decade. "Yes, congratulations John Cash on your superstardom. Big deal," he wrote to himself. "True, you must be grateful for... > more

by Bill Bryson,The San Francisco Chronicle, October 27, 2013
A lot happened in 1927, as it does in just about every year. Charles Lindbergh made a solo, nonstop flight across the Atlantic. Babe Ruth swatted 60 home runs. Millions... > more

by Wendy Lower,The Minneapolis Star Tribune, October 22, 2013
Soon after her arrival in the Ukrainian-Polish border town of Volodymyr-Volynsky in September 1941, 22-year-old secretary Johanna Altvater saw her boss shooting Jews who were loading barrels at the railroad... > more

by Ken Stern,The San Francisco Chronicle, October 20, 2013
Founded in 2002, the U.S. Navy Veterans Association raised more than $100 million during the decade following IRS approval of its charitable status. Run by an all-volunteer staff, which reports... > more

Cornell ILR Sports Business Society Blog, October 20, 2013
Minggao "Magic" Peng is a prospective Cornell student who works as a sports writer in his native China. Magic covers the local soccer club for his provincial newspaper, as... > more

by Alan Dershowitz,The Boston Globe, October 18, 2013
Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz defended so many high-profile clients, including O. J. Simpson, Claus von Bülow, Mike Tyson, and Bill Clinton, that every time his son saw a case... > more

by Seth Lipsky,The Jerusalem Post, October 18, 2013
Urged by an acquaintance to emigrate from Russia to Palestine, 22-year-old Abraham Cahan opted instead to settle in the United States. In that far-off country, Cahan envisioned a life of... > more

by A. C. Grayling,Psychology Today, October 15, 2013
Influenced in some measure by Cicero's texts, De Amicitia and Hortensius, Augustine gave a splendid account of friendship in his Confessions. Looking back on the death of a playmate... > more

by Liesl Schillinger,The Huffington Post, October 14, 2013
With its iPads and iPhones, email, IM, texts, and tweets, the digital age has, for better and worse, transformed our professional and personal lives. The average teenager spends more than... > more

by James McBride,The Florida Courier, October 11, 2013
In the late 1850s, Henry Shackelford, the narrator of "The Good Lord Bird," James McBride’s new novel, finds himself working in a brothel in "Bleeding Kansas," the territory torn apart... > more

by Craig Steven Wilder,The Boston Globe, October 2, 2013
American institutions of higher education have remained the envy of the world. According to Craig Steven Wilder, an MIT history professor and author of 2001's "In the Company of Black... > more

by Paul Sabin,Tulsa World, September 29, 2013
On "a stinking night" in 1966 in Delhi, India, which he was visiting in order to collect butterfly specimens, Stanford University biology professor Paul Ehrlich gained an emotional understanding of... > more

(co-authored with David J. Skorton)Forbes.com, September 23, 2013
Of all the dramatic changes in higher education in recent years, one that goes largely unnoticed is the tremendous growth in the mission, services, and facilities of health centers. Decades... > more

by Kiese Laymon,The Florida Courier, September 20, 2013
Born and raised in Jackson, Miss., Kiese Laymon saw himself as an unrefined “Black Boy looking for both acceptance and something to resist anywhere I could find it.” Acceptance... > more

by Rachel Adams,Psychology Today, September 17, 2013
Soon after she gave birth to a baby with Down Syndrome, Columbia University Professor Rachel Adams, the author of Sideshow USA: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination, and the director... > more

Cornell Chronicle, 2013
For Chinese high school students interested in attending college in the United States, the China Cornell College Preparatory Program (CCCPP) offers a preview of higher education at a cutting-edge Ivy... > more

by Derek Bok,The Huffington Post, September 3, 2013
In Francis Cornford's satire, Microcosmographia Academica (1908), the dons in Great Britain dismiss a proposal to change traditional practices at their college because "Nothing should ever be tried for the... > more

by Victor S. Navasky,The San Francisco Chronicle, August 25, 2013
In response to David Low's caricatures in London's Evening Standard, which depicted Adolf Hitler as a spoiled brat, the Führer dreamed of retaliation. He commissioned a beautifully bound volume that... > more

by Andrew Hudgins,The Portland Oregonian, August 25, 2013
Every joker, Andrew Hudgins acknowledges, ought to take heed of Goethe’s observation that “Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.” Nonetheless, Hudgins (a poet who... > more

(co-authored with David J. Skorton)Forbes.com, August 20, 2013
It’s mid-August, and 21 million young adults in the United States are getting ready for college. For many of these students, it is a first-time experience that inspires excitement, optimism... > more

by Randall Kennedy,The Florida Courier, August 16, 2013
Randall Kennedy attended St. Albans School for Boys, Princeton University and Yale Law School. He served as a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. He is... > more

by Cris Beam, (co-authored with Patrick M. Burns)The Huffington Post, August 12, 2013
Dominique, a foster child, has a tattoo of a butterfly on her left hand. "I think they symbolize freedom," she said, "because I've never seen them standing still; they're always... > more

by Robert Wilson,The Boston Globe, August 9, 2013
Despite the severe economic downturn following the Panic of 1837, the photography business in the United States grew at a brisk pace into the 1840s and ’50s. Only two sorts... > more

Cornell Chronicle, 2013
Nemdia Daceney, who discovered a lack of worker satisfaction in one of Haiti’s “free zones,” continued her research at Cornell this summer with the hope of informing Haitian public and... > more

by Svetlana Alpers,Psychology Today, August 5, 2013
In The Roofwalker (1961), the poet Adrienne Rich imagines builders standing on a roof at night, “the wave of darkness about to break on their heads” and the sky “a... > more

Cornell Chronicle, July 30, 2013
Planning their 50th wedding anniversary, Sam ’61, M.D. ’66, and Judy ’62 Greenblatt considered taking their family on a cruise. But they ended up celebrating their golden anniversary in a... > more

(co-authored with David J. Skorton)Forbes.com, July 29, 2013
Next month a new Obama-administration policy will give the public greater access to research funded by the federal government. This is good news for the scientific community as well... > more

by Mark Kurlansky,The Boston Globe, July 26, 2013
At the time Martin Luther King Jr. led the March on Washington in 1963, Dizzy Gillespie declared he was a candidate for the presidency of the United States. If elected,... > more

by Clifton Leaf,The Jerusalem Post, July 26, 2013
A Gallup poll taken in December 1949, Clifton Leaf tells us, revealed that 77 percent of Americans did not believe that a human being would land on the moon by... > more

Cornell Chronicle, July 24, 2013
Meet Yerkebulan Alpysbay. That’s Yerko, to his friends. A rising high school senior from Kazakhstan, he has just finished a three-week School of Hotel Administration hospitality course at Cornell University... > more

Cornell Chronicle, July 23, 2013
Users of Twitter and other social media receive criticism for broadcasting mundane things about their lives, but a Cornell researcher says the idea of chronicling everyday life for a broader... > more

by Michael Golay,The Minneapolis Star Tribune, July 23, 2013
In November 1933, Lorena Hickok, a former editor of the Minneapolis Tribune, returned to Minnesota. She was crisscrossing the United States on an assignment for Harry Hopkins, head of the... > more

Cornell Chronicle, July 23, 2013
Remember the name Sharice Jones. Someday you might see her byline on these news stories. Thanks to the support of Erica Karsch ’94 and her husband, Michael Karsch, Jones and... > more

by Joshua Kendall,The Boston Globe, July 20, 2013
When a friend predicted that someone would soon write his biography, sex researcher Alfred Kinsey
proclaimed, “Nonsense! The progress of science depends upon knowledge. It has nothing to do with personalities.”... > more

by A. A. Gill,The Portland Oregonian, July 14, 2013
Some years ago, A.A. Gill, a contributing editor to Vanity Fair who was born in Edinburgh and resides in England, spoke at a literary festival in favor of the motion... > more

by Robert Wuthnow,The Minneapolis Star Tribune, July 14, 2013
A woman in her 70s who lives in the suburbs of Minneapolis recently declared that the best thing about her community is “its small-town atmosphere.” The cornfields disappeared decades ago,... > more

by Robert Cassanello,The Florida Courier, July 12, 2013
Following the election of 1888, the local press in Florida complained that White voters stayed away from the polls while “motley crowds of negroes loaded to the muzzle,” ready to... > more

Cornell Chronicle, July 11, 2013
Fifteen Cornell students spent 20 days in Turin, Italy, June 2-22, to learn about European politics and culture as part of the Cornell in Turin (CiT) summer study abroad. Now... > more

by Lynda Obst,Tulsa World, July 7, 2013
Lynda Obst could not help noticing that, in 2011, the 10 top-grossing films in the United States included eight sequels: "Harry Potter (8)," "Transformers (3)," "The Twilight Saga (4)," "The... > more

by Matt Haig,The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 7, 2013
On Vonnadoria, there are no comforting delusions, no religion, no love, hate, passion, or remorse, no names, no husbands or wives, no death. Reason reigns, and every action originates in... > more

by Frederic C. Rich,The San Francisco Chronicle, July 7, 2013
"I'm not like you," Greg, the narrator of Frederic C. Rich's new novel, tells his best friend, Sanjay. "I am not a person of passion. I'm practical. I have made... > more

by Floyd Abrams,Cornell Alumni Magazine, July 1, 2013
Floyd Abrams '56 has argued more First Amendment cases before the United States Supreme Court than any other lawyer. Few of them, including New York Times v. The United States... > more

by Anupam Chander,The Huffington Post, July 1, 2013
The information and services delivered on the World Wide Web generate jurisdictional conflicts, Anupam Chander, a Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis, reminds us. Should the rules... > more

by Mason B. Williams; Thomas Dyja,The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 30, 2013
"Chicago liked watching things being built," the late Severn Darden, an original member of The Second City comedy troupe, once said. "New York audiences like to watch things that are... > more

by Jonathan Alter,The Florida Courier, June 28, 2013
On Election Night 2012, Barack Obama was apparently happier than he had been four years earlier. He believed that the stakes were higher with Mitt Romney as his opponent... > more

(co-authored with David J. Skorton)Forbes.com, June 24, 2013
It’s summer at last in Ithaca, New York. At Cornell University, the lawns have turned emerald, ancient sycamores and oaks are flourishing, sunbeams glance off the bronze head of Ezra... > more

by David Cannadine,The Portland Oregonian, June 23, 2013
It is "an odd presumption," Amartya Sen once observed, that "people of the world can be uniquely characterized according to some singular and overarching system of partitioning." ... > more

by John Taliaferro,Tulsa World, June 23, 2013
"There are two important lines of human endeavor in which men are forbidden even to allude to their success," John Hay told the governor of New York state, the mayor-elect... > more

by Brendan I. Koerner,The San Francisco Chronicle, June 23, 2013
In his best-seller "The Skyjacker: His Flights of Fancy," published in 1971, Dallas psychiatrist David Hubbard concluded that the men who chose to commit this particular crime had been traumatized... > more

by Joseph Margulies,The Florida Courier, June 21, 2013
At an event marking the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, Joseph Margulies asked members of the audience if they had an opinion about... > more

by Lauren Sandler,Psychology Today, June 12, 2013
Some myths die hard. Others don’t die at all. In 1895, in a study entitled Of Peculiar and Exceptional Children, G. Stanley Hall, the first president of the American Psychological... > more

by Christopher S. Parker and Matt A. Barreto,The Huffington Post, June 3, 2013
The Tea Party was born less than a month after Barack Obama was inaugurated as president. Reporting from the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade for CNBC, libertarian Rick... > more

(co-authored with David J. Skorton)Forbes.com, May 28, 2013
As we noted in a previous post, MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) have the potential to transform higher education. But as online education makes headlines, a quiet revolution is under... > more

by Richard Rubin,The Minneapolis Star Tribune, May 26, 2013
In 2004, when he was 103, George Briant remembered marching near the village of Le Charmel in France. “There’s action and danger,” he recalled. “What’s thrilling about it — you... > more

by Robert G. Kaiser,The Boston Globe, May 23, 2013
Americans’ dissatisfaction with Congress, alas, is matched by ignorance about how the legislative branch of the government actually works. Constituents are grateful when their representative intervenes to help them solve... > more

by Jeffrey J. Selingo,The Huffington Post, May 7, 2013
Since the 1970s, Jeffrey Selingo, editor at large for the Chronicle of Higher Education, acknowledges, plenty of people have predicted the end of colleges and universities as we know them.... > more

by Mario Livio,Psychology Today, May 6, 2013
When James Watson saw the model for proteins (and the structure) of DNA proposed by Linus Pauling, the world’s greatest chemist, in 1953 he was shocked. “You could not have... > more

by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong,Tulsa World, May 5, 2013
In 1969, Jim Brooks and Allan Burns flew from Los Angeles to New York to pitch their sitcom, starring Mary Tyler Moore, to the programming executives for CBS TV.
... > more

by David Caute,The Jerusalem Post, May 3, 2013
Isaac Deutscher and Isaiah Berlin had a lot in common. Born just two years apart, both were Jews, refugees (Berlin from Latvia/Russia, Deutscher from Poland) who settled in England,... > more

by Edward O. Wilson,The Boston Globe, April 29, 2013
On July 3, 2006, the Explorer’s Club, joined by the American Museum of Natural History and several other organizations, conducted a “bioblitz” in New York’s Central Park. The bioblitz is... > more

by David Graeber,The San Francisco Chronicle, April 28, 2013
"Creating a new, alternative civilization" in the teeth of opposition from political and economic elites with militarized police at their disposal is "a difficult business," David Graeber acknowledges. He ought... > more

by Marcia Coyle,The Portland Oregonian, April 28, 2013
"One of the hardest things about constitutional law is that there aren't clear answers to questions," former Acting Solicitor General of the United States Neal Katyal declared about a year... > more

(co-authored with David J. Skorton)Forbes.com, April 25, 2013
Vannevar Bush died long before the launch of Forbes.com, but he built analog computers in the 1920s and described a mechanism that anticipated hypertext and the Internet in the 1940s.... > more

by Gil Troy,The Jerusalem Post, April 25, 2013
On November 10, 1975, after the United Nations General Assembly passed Resolution 3379, which announced that "Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination," Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the US... > more

by Terry Mort,The Minneapolis Star Tribune, April 23, 2013
Second Lt. George Bascom was “a fine looking fellow” and a gentleman, a white settler of Arizona recalled, “but he was unfortunately a fool.” After all, Bascom’s decision in 1861... > more

by Jaron Lanier,The Huffington Post, April 22, 2013
Jaron Lanier is making James T. Kirk's wager. Like the fictional captain of the USS Starship Enterprise on Star Trek, played on television by William Shatner, Lanier, a computer scientist... > more

by Benn Steil,Tulsa World, April 21, 2013
In the spring of 1941, the British economist John Maynard Keynes was briefed on the American personalities he would face in meetings in New York and Washington about the provisions... > more

by Yvonne Sherratt,The Jerusalem Post, April 19, 2013
Asked in 1941 how his fellow philosophers were receiving the war, Dr. August Faust, a professor at the University of Breslau, wrote that "in German thought there were always ready... > more

by Bob Thompson,The Minneapolis Star Tribune, April 17, 2013
In 1833, after regaining his old seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, David Crockett started cashing in on his celebrity. Puzzled that his “humble name” attracted public interest, he... > more

by Ken Kalfus,The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 14, 2013
The equilateral triangle combines the virtues of uniformity and variety, Sanford Thayer, the main character in Ken Kalfus' new novel, proclaims.... > more

by Tracy Thompson,The Florida Courier, April 12, 2013
Living next door to Tracy Thompson’s former colleague in Marietta, GA, is a Navy man, who watches Fox News and listens to Rush Limbaugh. The man and his wife, both... > more

by David Nirenberg,The Jerusalem Post, April 5, 2013
"A good maxim" Friedrich Nietzsche claimed, "is too hard for the teeth of time, and all the millennia cannot succeed in consuming it, though it always serves as nourishment."... > more

by William H. Gass,The Jerusalem Post, March 29, 2013
“If Paul Pry were to open him like a tin,” Joseph Skizzen, the main character in William Gass’s long-awaited novel, confesses to himself, “the tin would be empty, not even... > more

(co-authored with David J. Skorton)Forbes.com, March 25, 2013
Ithaca, NY, where Cornell’s main campus is located, is less than an hour’s drive from four maximum-security state prisons for men. Proximity has led to a partnership among institutions of... > more

by Zoltan J. Acs,Tulsa World, March 24, 2013
Americans are the most generous people on earth. Each year, they give away about $350 billion, roughly 2 or 3 percent of the gross domestic product. Philanthropy and... > more

by Earl Shorris,The San Francisco Chronicle, March 24, 2013
On a Saturday morning in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in January 1995, David Howell, a 24-year-old man with a history of violent behavior, called Earl Shorris. Howell told... > more

by Michael Pettis,Tulsa World, March 17, 2013
About a year ago, Dutch academic Helen Mees predicted that "as China's economy continues to mature, it may just be the economic engine that the United States and Europe need... > more

by T. D. Allman,The Portland Oregonian, March 10, 2013
With the passage of time, journalist T.D. Allman, a native Floridian and the author of "Miami: City of the Future," indicates, the truth "supposedly emerges from the rubble of accusations... > more

by Jonah Berger,The Boston Globe, March 3, 2013
Published in 2000, "The Tipping Point" rapidly reached a tipping point. In the blink of an eye, it seems, Malcolm Gladwell's argument that social epidemics are spread by a small... > more

(co-authored with David J. Skorton)Forbes.com, February 21, 2013
Given a sense of urgency by the murders at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the gun control debate rages on across the nation. Less well known is that this year many... > more

by Peter Temin and David Vines,The Huffington Post, February 20, 2013
Whenever he argued with John Maynard Keynes, the philosopher Bertrand Russell recalled, "I felt I took my life in my hands and I seldom emerged without feeling something of a... > more

by W. Patrick McCray,Tulsa World, February 3, 2013
Gerard O'Neill, a professor of physics at Princeton University, described himself as "a romantic, an idealist, and a practical physicist and engineer." O'Neill hoped that whenever the romance got out... > more

by Barbara Ransby,The Florida Courier, February 1, 2013
"We Negroes have now passed The Point of No Return," Eslanda Robeson wrote in 1964. "We are determined, determined to claim our full citizenship and human rights, now, period."

(co-authored with David J. Skorton)Forbes.com, January 28, 2013
Although it has given rise to jokes about cows and an outfielder for the 1986 New York Mets, MOOC is actually an acronym for Massive Open Online Courses. Depending on... > more

by Carlin Flora,The Huffington Post, January 27, 2013
Good friendships, formed in adolescence, according to psychologist Carl Pickhardt, give individuals a capacity to forge and sustain other relationships, including romantic ones. "But we have a funny culture," Pickhardt... > more

by Edward Ball,The San Francisco Chronicle, January 27, 2013
On the surface, Leland Stanford and Eadweard Muybridge were an odd couple. One of the wealthiest men in the United States, Stanford lived high, dressed well (rarely leaving home without... > more

Cornell Alumni Magazine, 2013
Named for the star that once guided escaped slaves on the Underground Railroad, the Polaris Project is a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit dedicated to combating human trafficking. Its offices are located... > more

by Alexandra Horowitz,The Portland Oregonian, January 13, 2013
Paul Shaw looks at everything. A teacher of calligraphy and typography at Parson's School of Design in New York City, he noticed that the current version of taxi cab signage... > more

by James Oakes,The Florida Courier, January 11, 2013
As we celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, Americans continue to fight about the causes and consequences of the Civil War. Was the conflict “irrepressible,” some ask, or... > more

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